Evie Shockley is the author of two books of poetry—the new black, winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry, and a half-red sea—and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (Iowa). Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies (most recently, The Account, The Black Scholar, Jacket2, Waxwing, and Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century) and her honors include the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize, fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and residencies at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Currently serving as creative editor on the Feminist Studies editorial collective, Shockley is an Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, NJ.
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